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Birthday
• 1979-05-10
Gender
• Female
Location
• Shizuoka, Japan
Member Since
• 2004-03-06
Occupation
• English Teacher
Real Name
• Katy

Personal

Achievements
• stayed alive for 28+ years
Anime Fan Since
• 1997
Favorite Anime
• Sailor Moon, Naruto, Spirited Away, all things CLAMP, all things Gundam
Goals
• to not freeze during my first Japanese winter!
Hobbies
• Rollerblading, Writing, Drawing, Reading, Karate
Talents
• Pretty much the same as those *points upwards*

myOtaku.com: sailor firestar

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Because I'm so incredibly happy right now it also makes me worry about losing everything. - Lil, Angel Sanctuary

I'm going to Shizuoka shi!! That's right, I FINALLY got my JET placement this morning and it was my first choice prefecture! I'm soooo excited! Just FYI, Shizuoka is in the southern part of Honshu island, about an hour from Tokyo by Shinkansen (bullet train!)Here's a map of Japan....

...so you can see it, and here's the prefecture itself...

Oh, before I continue, I'm sorry!! *bows* I still didn't get to visit anyone this week. Only one more week of school to go though and then I'll be totally free! Well, not really since I'm going to New York and then there's summer school to teach, but I won't be busy babysitting and planning Pre-K graduation and getting ready for my yellow belt test all on top of it.

Anyway, Shizuoka is the largest prefecture in Japan by land area. It has a mild climate and they grow things like green tea, oranges, and strawberries. It's also known for having really good oden, gyoza, and soba. Yummy!! Mt. Fuji is in Shizuoka, and it's near the Pacific Ocean but also has rivers, lakes, and occasionally snow. They're big into soccer in that area, but also host the World Cup for something called Daidogei. As far as I can tell this is some kind of acrobat competition, but it looks really cool! There are festivals in April, July, and November. As far as I can tell I am going to be in the actual city, since -shi means city, but I could end up somewhere else in the prefecture. I'll find out more sometime in the next month when I get contacted by the actual school(s) that I'll be working at. I think I'm also going to hear from my predecessor, so that will be pretty cool. I'll get the opinion of someone like me who's been doing what I'm going to do soon.

Ahhh!! OK, I must confess, I'm freaking out a little bit right now. Ah, but it'll be ok. I can't look back now. As it says in the email, this placement is FINAL. So basically, unless something horribly tragic happens, I'm going. Well, now I've got to go get fitted for contact lenses, but after that I'm really going to come home and work on my computer a lot. MyOtaku, MySpace, editing the kids yearbook pictures, ebay postings, etc....I'm sure I'll think of more stuff to do, so if you're waiting on me to respond to you it'll be tonight I promise! Have a great week everyone! *hugs* Talk to you later!

Oh yeah, and here's one more b-day card I got from Lily-chan !

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